Table 2 Item responses to the FAST scale (N = 11,992)
From: Validation of the food access survey tool to assess household food insecurity in rural Bangladesh
Original question | Item description | Responses (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Never | Rarely | Some-times | Often | Mostly | |||
In the past 6 months, how often did… | |||||||
Item 1a | you eat three ‘square meals’ (full stomach meals) a day (not a festival day) | Square meals | 2.1 | 1.7 | 6.2 | 7.6 | 82.4 |
Item 2 | you or any of your family have to eat wheat (or another grain) although you wanted to eat rice (not including when you were sick)? | Have to eat other grains | 92.7 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
Item 3 | you yourself skip entire meals due to scarcity of food? | Skip entire meals | 89.0 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
Item 4 | you personally eat less food in a meal due to scarcity of food? | Eat less | 77.3 | 7.0 | 10.7 | 2.9 | 2.1 |
Item 5 | food stored in your home run out and there was no money to buy more that day? | Run out of food | 87.4 | 6.8 | 4.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 |
Item 6 | you worry about where food would come from? | Worry about food | 85.0 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
Item 7 | your family purchase rice? | Purchase rice often | 57.9 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 9.5 | 15.9 |
Item 8 | your family take food (rice, lentils etc.) on credit (or loan) from a local shop? | Take food on credit | 84.1 | 4.6 | 6.3 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
Item 9 | your family have to borrow food from relatives or neighbors to make a meal? | Borrow food | 79.4 | 12.6 | 6.9 | 0.9 | 0.2 |